Yeah, I think that ship ain't going to sea for a while.
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Subsequent explosion of ammunition. Might need a bit of elbow grease before she’s back on the seas.
https://x.com/maks_nafo_fella/status/1739590420831543536?s=46
https://x.com/maks_nafo_fella/status/1739590420831543536?s=46
Keep the change, you filthy animal.
Considering what that ship supposedly transported, I had to say the words.
Keep the change, you filthy animal.
Considering what that ship supposedly transported, I had to say the words.
Come Out To The Coast, We’ll Get Together, Have A Few Laughs... Merry Christmas.
Those landing ships are extremely valuable.
Missiles from Ukrainian aircraft. F16s going to work?
Bit early, no? Or the training has gone extremely fast.
Could just be a Storm Shadow strike again.
No idea, maybe they had some training overseas?
Most wars conclude with peace deals between distrusting factions; there is nothing unique about this conflict.
Zelenskyy/Putin will sign a deal, when they're forced to:
This is March 22
Ukraine couldn’t trust that peace though, they already have a peace treaty with Russia that Putin has p*ssed on.
You’d be stupid to let a single soldier off the line if you’re Ukraine.
Nothing is uglier than a multipla
Concerning time for Ukraine with overseas funding drying up. Without fresh injections of ovreseas money and weapons soon they are going to struggle badly in 2024. Putin seems to not care at all what it costs him to push forward.
There'll be funding eventually. Just sad that politics is played over it.
It’s getting kinda time critical no?
Ukraine's stolen children
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/26/world/europe/ukraine-war-children-russia.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/26/world/europe/ukraine-war-children-russia.html
Massive missile barrage all over Ukraine right now, looks like all the major cities have been targeted. One Ukrainian commander said that it's the largest attack of the war so far and that they have't seen this many incoming targets on their monitors before.
This is what Russia does, for every military target Ukraine destroys they retaliate with attacks on civilians.
feck Biden and Republicans and the rest of the European decision makers for allowing this to continue for so long.
Clearly not enough Patriots, it’s embarrassing that Ukraine has been given just 3 systems in 2 years, there should have been dozens of them already in a country as big as Ukraine. There should be so many of these systems that Russia deems it worthless to waste any missiles.
Just fecking confiscate those frozen $300Billion worth of russian assets right now and give Ukraine the means to purchase any desired weapons for that amount and have this finished in a few months.
That being said that kind of brutal attack is on every media front page and "a good thing is" that it's on there to remind the West the brutality.
I know Russia has been attacking civilian targets since the very beginning, but is there a chance they will step those attacks up due to the fact Israel are doing it all over Gaza and the West Bank with impunity?
The Russians are certainly loving the hypocricy exposed by the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, as noted by a European diplomat if I recall correctly from a WSJ or WaPo article. But I doubt they're making decisions based on what happens in Gaza.
Agreed 1000%. Cameron mentioned doing it once and then nothing. Get on with it you absolute ballbags, I don't give a shit what precedent it sets for rich people, can only be a good thing if they're scared in my book.
Shows the scale of today's attack, but also how much Russia's air campaign has collapsed this year.
I'm pretty sure that they were saving for the winter (and, especially, the New Year, which is the biggest holiday of the year in most post-Soviet countries) regardless of what happened in Gaza. For a bigger demoralizing effect and in a sick hope that by targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure they'll leave Ukrainian people freezing.
I agree and the reason is that most if not all NATO countries did not invest in air defense. You can not give what you don't have plus most countries in NATO understand this now, so there are huge orders for systems from NATO. This makes a silly situation where we understand Ukraine needs it, so we need that, so the industry can only do so much. Just to say about Patriot, Romania alone has an order for 3 new systems and the US for 4 systems every year, Poland 8 I think. The reason the West can not give massive amounts of Patriot or similar is because we did not buy them in the first place.
It's more the fact that with supplies running low for Ukraine and the West dragging their feet, Russia wants to take the opportunity to ramp up their operations and force the decision on the battlefield. These missile waves are saturating the Ukrainian air defense systems and they won't be able to defend themselves for very long at this rythm. It is also known that the Russians favors strikes on civilian infrastructures and power plants in the winter to let the Ukrainians freeze.
Obviously this won't be escalated but interesting detail: a presumably Russian missile entered Polish airspace.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rus...in-smells-blood-seeking-ukraines-capitulation
"Contrary to President Biden’s and the Washington establishment’s expectations, and tragically for Ukrainians, Kyiv's victory remains mathematically impossible. Here’s the basis for my analysis..."
And:
"Nobody believes in our victory like I do," Zelenskyy recently told Time magazine. Zelenskyy is correct. No one with common sense believes that Ukraine can win against Russia, whose population is three times higher than Ukraine’s, allowing the Kremlin to throw flesh in the meat grinder long after the last Ukrainian perishes. Even the U.S. media – which was blindly cheerleading Ukraine for the past two years, rather than delivering objective analysis – have all but acknowledged that Putin’s war machine will likely outlast Zelenskyy’s arsenal, as well as Western support.
Mathematics doesn’t lie, no matter how hard the Washington establishment tries to rig the numbers"
It's worth noting that unlike the endless gaggle of "retired 4-star generals" (who now serve as board members for Raytheon and Lockheed Martin) who provide "expert analysis" for the likes of CNN and MSNBC, Rebekah Koffler has been consistently and provably right about the course of this conflict since it began. Unfortunately she will continue to be ignored by "once in a generation intellect" (Hillary Clinton's description of him) Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blinken.
"Contrary to President Biden’s and the Washington establishment’s expectations, and tragically for Ukrainians, Kyiv's victory remains mathematically impossible. Here’s the basis for my analysis..."
And:
"Nobody believes in our victory like I do," Zelenskyy recently told Time magazine. Zelenskyy is correct. No one with common sense believes that Ukraine can win against Russia, whose population is three times higher than Ukraine’s, allowing the Kremlin to throw flesh in the meat grinder long after the last Ukrainian perishes. Even the U.S. media – which was blindly cheerleading Ukraine for the past two years, rather than delivering objective analysis – have all but acknowledged that Putin’s war machine will likely outlast Zelenskyy’s arsenal, as well as Western support.
Mathematics doesn’t lie, no matter how hard the Washington establishment tries to rig the numbers"
It's worth noting that unlike the endless gaggle of "retired 4-star generals" (who now serve as board members for Raytheon and Lockheed Martin) who provide "expert analysis" for the likes of CNN and MSNBC, Rebekah Koffler has been consistently and provably right about the course of this conflict since it began. Unfortunately she will continue to be ignored by "once in a generation intellect" (Hillary Clinton's description of him) Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blinken.
Numbers might not lie. But they often get misinterpreted. Of course Russia has bigger numbers and more human capital. Everybody is well aware of this and it’s an obvious advantage for Russia. But to pretend the war therefor can’t be won is just not correct. And if that’s the whole basis of the analysis, it’s quite the useless analysis. Because it adds nothing we didn’t already know beforehand and changes absolutely nothing.